Sentences with phrase «sculptures challenged the nature»

His questioning, sometimes irreverent approach to the creation of his sculptures challenged the nature of these materials, in particular how they could be affected by forces such as heat or gravity, determining their final form.

Not exact matches

Illustrated with performance, private videos, and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed and innovative documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures, and scientific models.

Over the past two decades, Sze has challenged the static nature of sculpture, creating constellations of objects, activities, and cataclysmic moments that convey the essence of a new world overwhelmed by fragments of information.

Just large enough to house one of his twelve - inch - tall «vases,» this detail doesn't just challenge the conventional, age - old relationship between sculpture and support, but it beautifully articulates the harmonious interplay that can ensue when artist and nature merge forces.

Her small, portable sculptures made of soft materials, embodying domestic themes, challenge the traditionally monolithic nature of sculpture in the western world.

Challenging aesthetic norms of what sculpture or painting or installation or plain photographic documentation is, Smit's artistic practice presents a series of new works that are the result of the serendipitous nature of life interpreted as an errare.

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.

Her art challenges the static nature of sculpture as it models and navigates the ceaseless proliferation of information in contemporary life.

Each sculpture — a capture of a moment in time when those molecules arranged themselves in that specific form — a challenge to the very nature of constant change and transformation.

These artists join a photographer exploring the personal through costumes of elaborate dresses made from nature and sculpture that questions the state of art making itself and how scale can challenge expectations.

Warren's sculptures continue to ebb from figuration to abstraction and range from amorphous to more clearly recognizable forms, which are sometimes sexual in nature and reference the body in humorous and challenging ways.

The ephemerality, immediacy, and popular nature of magazines appealed to a generation of artists that challenged the exalted status of painting and sculpture.

The material nature of the works exhibited implies a utilitarian purpose, challenging the boundaries between sculpture and molds, object and meaning, strength and fragility, the organic and the mechanical.

Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges the static nature of sculpture.